Insurance rule to limit legal immigration

In a new anti-immigration salvo, the Trump administration announced last week that starting in November it will deny visas to legal immigrants who can’t prove that they have health insurance or sufficient money to cover health-care costs. The order would not affect children, or those old enough to be covered by Medicare. However, Medicaid, the health coverage program for the poor, would not meet the insurance requirement. New “public charge” rules announced in August and scheduled to go into effect later this month will also limit the ability of immigrants who get Medicaid to seek citizenship. One immigration advocate critical of the policy accused the administration of looking “for any way to exclude people who aren’t wealthy.”